Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2002, 10:56 PM CDT for Harvey County, Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2002, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2002, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Harvey County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 142 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1345 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 170356 SVRICT KSC079-173-170500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1056 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HARVEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. * AT 1056 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOUNT HOPE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR SEDGWICK AROUND 1115 PM CDT... NEAR VALLEY CENTER AROUND 1120 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR HARVEY AND SEDGWICK COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. LAT...LON 3795 9769 3782 9769 3782 9735 3796 9736 /OMITT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 58 min |
| Apr 16, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 59 min |
| Apr 16, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 57 min |
| Apr 16, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 57 min |
| Apr 16, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 37 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.